Word: washere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ever use an ID card to spread peanut butter? Wamback reports that he has "seen cards chewed up by dogs, run through a dish washer, burned, dropped in a paper shredder. Holes have been punched through the magnetic strip. Some have been broken when used to scrape ice from windshields. (Cards are more brittle at lower temperatures)." So don't confuse your card with a Swiss Army knife or you might find yourself out in the cold...
...young woman who at age 30, shortly after the birth of her second child, entered a netherworld of nonstop epileptic seizures. The seizures damaged a region of the brain called the hippocampus, so that afterward she could no longer recall the simplest things, like having put clothes in the washer or having given her kids permission to visit friends. For six years she has lived in a free-floating present, unable to form new memories or envision the future. Her extended consciousness has been sadly diminished...
...bushy-haired intruder Sheppard claimed knocked him unconscious when he came to the aid of his screaming wife. (Sheppard died in 1970; his remains were exhumed for DNA samples in 1997 at his son's request.) But Sheppard?s son claims that the intruder was a very real window-washer, and calls the exhumation just another stall tactic by the prosecution. When poor Mrs. Sheppard is unearthed ? no date has yet been set ? what clues will her body yield? Not much, probably. She may help investigators clarify their picture of the crime scene, or indeed help keep Sam Sheppard...
WALK INTO ANY laundry room on campus and you're bound to find them: crusty, stained underwear carelessly left behind during the transfers from bag to washer to dryer and back again. Though you may cringe at the sight of them, with a touch of commercial savvy these misplaced undies could be your ticket to financial success...
...smell of Tide is in the air, and the calming roar of the dryers creates a soothing and peaceful atmosphere. A girl idly folds her clothes on top of a washer, when a guy looking lost and confused drags in an enormous bag of dirty laundry. The girl looks up, sees the guy and smiles...